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I hate to be offering information via the mail but they printed details of the BBC team behind the coverage

"The shows producers were Claire Megahey, Zoe Timmers and Kate Shiers and the director was Ian Russell.

Ms Megahey has worked as a producer on The One Show while Ms Timmers was on the production team for the popular comedy documentary Three Men in a Boat featuring Griff Rhys Jones.

Ms Shiers lists the BBC One series To The Manor Reborn, which looked at the process behind bringing a property back to life, among her credits and Mr Russell has been involved with some of the biggest live broadcasts of the last decade including the royal wedding of William and Kate.

Diamond Jubilee coverage executive editor Mr Weston is a Bafta-winning filmmaker.

He has a particular interest in musical films and has previously organised large music events for the BBC - including the pop concert at Buckingham Palace for the Jubilee celebrations ten years ago.

He won a Bafta award for his 2004 film Holocaust - A Music Memorial Film, which he produced as part of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

He was also behind the BBC four film How Britain Got the Gardening Bug, with Laurence Llewellyn Bowen and Germaine Greer, and the Channel four ‘music film’ War Oratorio, which traced the lives of people caught up in war zones around the world."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ty-driven-coverage-Queens-Thames-Pageant.html
 
dylanwinter said:
I hate to be offering information via the mail but they printed details of the BBC team behind the coverage

"The shows producers were Claire Megahey, Zoe Timmers and Kate Shiers and the director was Ian Russell.

Ms Megahey has worked as a producer on The One Show while Ms Timmers was on the production team for the popular comedy documentary Three Men in a Boat featuring Griff Rhys Jones.

Ms Shiers lists the BBC One series To The Manor Reborn, which looked at the process behind bringing a property back to life, among her credits and Mr Russell has been involved with some of the biggest live broadcasts of the last decade including the royal wedding of William and Kate.

Diamond Jubilee coverage executive editor Mr Weston is a Bafta-winning filmmaker.

He has a particular interest in musical films and has previously organised large music events for the BBC - including the pop concert at Buckingham Palace for the Jubilee celebrations ten years ago.

He won a Bafta award for his 2004 film Holocaust - A Music Memorial Film, which he produced as part of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

He was also behind the BBC four film How Britain Got the Gardening Bug, with Laurence Llewellyn Bowen and Germaine Greer, and the Channel four ‘music film’ War Oratorio, which traced the lives of people caught up in war zones around the world."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ty-driven-coverage-Queens-Thames-Pageant.html
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Suspect that they will get a BAFTA for the coverage, might even get a knighthood.
 
I have just made a complaint on the BBC system, it's very easy just google 'BBC complaint' and it guides one through.

Won't make any difference, but it made me feel a little better and I'd urge anyone who feels as I do to give them your 'feedback' !
 
dylanwinter said:
I hate to be offering information via the mail but they printed details of the BBC team behind the coverage

"The shows producers were Claire Megahey, Zoe Timmers and Kate Shiers and the director was Ian Russell.

Ms Megahey has worked as a producer on The One Show while Ms Timmers was on the production team for the popular comedy documentary Three Men in a Boat featuring Griff Rhys Jones.

Ms Shiers lists the BBC One series To The Manor Reborn, which looked at the process behind bringing a property back to life, among her credits and Mr Russell has been involved with some of the biggest live broadcasts of the last decade including the royal wedding of William and Kate.

Diamond Jubilee coverage executive editor Mr Weston is a Bafta-winning filmmaker.

He has a particular interest in musical films and has previously organised large music events for the BBC - including the pop concert at Buckingham Palace for the Jubilee celebrations ten years ago.

He won a Bafta award for his 2004 film Holocaust - A Music Memorial Film, which he produced as part of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

He was also behind the BBC four film How Britain Got the Gardening Bug, with Laurence Llewellyn Bowen and Germaine Greer, and the Channel four ‘music film’ War Oratorio, which traced the lives of people caught up in war zones around the world."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ty-driven-coverage-Queens-Thames-Pageant.html
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What their pedigree was doesn't really matter, they really made a mess of it. Despite that they are still claiming it was wonderful. I wish I had known it was being covered on Sky as well as I would have watched that instead. Now is the time to take the monopoly of covering state occasions away from the BBC.

ps The camera coverage of the concert was just as bad, never let you actually see who was in the royal box because the shots were too short, at least there was no inane commentry
 
Seajet said:
I have just made a complaint on the BBC system, it's very easy just google 'BBC complaint' and it guides one through.

Won't make any difference, but it made me feel a little better and I'd urge anyone who feels as I do to give them your 'feedback' !
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I have tried that in the past and found that all they do is tell you politely you are wrong. If you try and complain about the response, it is a new complaint so you have to go through the whole thing again, a total waste of time, and you may get the p*ss taken out of you on points of view where they try to make those who complain look stupid.
 
maxi77 said:
What their pedigree was doesn't really matter, they really made a mess of it. Despite that they are still claiming it was wonderful. I wish I had known it was being covered on Sky as well as I would have watched that instead. Now is the time to take the monopoly of covering state occasions away from the BBC.

ps The camera coverage of the concert was just as bad, never let you actually see who was in the royal box because the shots were too short, at least there was no inane commentry
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Actually, the pedigree is the key...

The producers are all, for want of a better term, celebritites.... The one show is a celebrity platform, And they just brought this prejudice towards celebrity hood to the party.... They thought that boats were boring and they had to put on a dog and bone show to keep us interested.

Like is said earlier, They should have given the gig to BBC sport, Who understand that the guys on the field are the star and people want to see the occasion.... The lot appointed are technically studio types, so may have lacked the expertise for when it went pair shaped... And they clearly thought that their show was better than the event.

I don't think that BBC sport would have made either mistake.
 
photodog said:
Actually, the pedigree is the key...

The producers are all, for want of a better term, celebritites.... The one show is a celebrity platform, And they just brought this prejudice towards celebrity hood to the party.... They thought that boats were boring and they had to put on a dog and bone show to keep us interested.

Like is said earlier, They should have given the gig to BBC sport, Who understand that the guys on the field are the star and people want to see the occasion.... The lot appointed are technically studio types, so may have lacked the expertise for when it went pair shaped... And they clearly thought that their show was better than the event.

I don't think that BBC sport would have made either mistake.
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Very true.
Celebrity culture reigns again.
 
I've noticed a trend in recent times to keep the shot durations as short as possible and jump from one camera angle to another. In a fast movie action programme or movie it may add to the sense of speed and drama but for a documentary or OB its better to hold the shot for a while to give the viewer a chance to take in the whole scene and smaller details which makes it more memorable. There were times over this weekend that I felt as queasy as, I'm sure, some passengers on the smaller boats did!:(
 
Ignorance and bias

It seems to me that all this uninformed criticism by mere licence payers and rival media organisations fails lamentably to see matters from the proper (I.e. BBC) perspective. What is being discussed was not, as we might have thought, an occasion of state being reported by the BBC, but much more important: a major BBC media operation covering an event with no sporting element.

It was planned by the BBC to suit their own agenda and executed to that plan; it was clearly a complete success and it is therefore churlish to offer anything other than effusive admiration and an insistence on paying a higher licence fee. We should also bear in mind that the themes of the event - the monarchy and boats - are of little or no interest to anyone important at the BBC who does not either hanker after a knighthood or aspire to owning a yacht. In the circumstances, we should all be jolly grateful that they bothered to do anything at all, especially on a Saturday in the rain.
 
SWMBO 'watched' a lot of last nights concert with her eyes closed because of the continual switching of cameras. I started doing rough timings of the shots and rarely made it past two seconds unless it was a tracking shot.

Ended up having conversations such as:
Me: Who is that guy with the beard.
SWMBO: Which guy?
Me: I'll tell you next time he is on.

(Turned out to be Runcie after about 6 attempts of "That guy!")

Stork_III said:
And the closing "credits" across the screen obscuring the firework finale.
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I might have forgiven that given they were running late, but what followed? An advert for European Cup coverage next week and lots of cyclists going around in circles.
 
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Wunja said:
SWMBO 'watched' a lot of last nights concert with her eyes closed because of the continual switching of cameras. I started doing rough timings of the shots and rarely made it past two seconds unless it was a tracking shot.

Ended up having conversations such as:
Me: Who is that guy with the beard.
SWMBO: Which guy?
Me: I'll tell you next time he is on.

(Turned out to be Runcie after about 6 attempts of "That guy!")
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not Williams then :rolleyes:
 
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